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THE PATIENT MAN.A Pr.ACTiCAL LESSON TAUGHT BYTHE STORY OF JOB.Sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage on theChristian Religion--Is it to be CoademnedBecause Some of Its Professors are Not 01What They Should Be?On Sunday Dr. Talmage preachedt(on "Narrow Escapes," talug as his iltext Job xiv, 20: "I am escaped with i!the skin of my teeth." Following is rhis sermon in full: tJob had it hard. When with boils ,and bereavement and bankruptcy, tJand a fool of a wife, he wished he pwas dead; and I do not blame him.0His flesh was gnne, and his boneswere dry. His teeth wasted away Iuntil nothing but the enamel seemed oleft. He cries out, "I am escaped awith the skin of my teeth." There shas been some difference of opinion Aabous this passage. St. Jerome and ISchultens, and Doctors Good and tlool and Barnes, have zdl tried their aforceps on Job's teeth. You deny 5my interpretation, and say, "Whatdid Job know about enamel of the tteeth?" He knew everything aboutit. Dental surgery is almost as oldas the earth. The mummies of Egypt, fthousands of years old, are found today with gold-filling in their teeth.Ovid and Horace and Solomon aadMoses wrote about those importantfae.ors of the body. To other proioling complaints, Job, I think: hasadted an exasperating toothache,an I putting his head against the infLmed face, he says, -I am escapedwith the skin of my teeth."A very narrow escape, you say, forJob's body and soul, but there arethousands of men who make just asnarrow escape for their soul. Therewas a time when the partition between them and ruin was no thickerthan a tooth's enamel; but as Jobfinally escaped, so have they. ThankGod! thank God!Paul expresses the same idea by adifferent figure when he says thatsome people are "saved as by fire."A vessel at sea is in flames. You goto the stern of the vessel. The boatshave shovedoff. The flames advance;you can endure the heat no longer onyour face. You slide down on theside of the vessel, and hold on withyour fimgers, until the forked tongueof the fire begins to lick the back ofyour hand, and you feel that youmust fall, when one of the lifeboatscomes back, and the passengers saythey think they have room for onemore. The boat swings under youyou drop into it-you are saved. Sosome men are pursued by temptation,-, until they are partially consumed, but,after all, get off-"saved as by fire."But I like the figure of Job a httlebetter than that of .eaul, because thepulpit has not worn it out; and Iwant to show you, if God will help,that some men make narrow escapefor their souls, and are saved as "withthe skin of their teeth."It is as easy for, some people tolook to the Cross as for you to lookto this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to become Christians. You go over to thestore and say, "Grandon joined thechurch yesterday." Your businesscomrades say: -That is just whatmight have been expected; he alwayswas of that turn of mind." In youththis person whom I describe was always good. He never broke things.sit an hour in church perfectly quiet,flooking nieither to the right-hand northe left, bus straight into the eyes ofthe minister, as thoughhe understoodthe whole discussion about the etersal decrees. He never upset thingsnor lost them. He floated into thekingdom'of God so gradually that itis uncertain just when the matter wasdecided.Here is another one, who startedilife with an uncontrollable spirit.He kept the nursery in an uproar.His mother found him walking on theedge of the house-roof to see ifhecould balance himself. There was nohorse that he dared not ride-no treehe ceuld not climb. His 'oyhooda long series of predicaments; hismanhood was reckless; his mid-life'very wayward. But now he is con'verted, and you go over to the storeand say, "Arkwright joined the churchyesterday." Your friends say: "It isnot possible! You must be joking."You say: "No; I tell you the truth.He joined the Church." Then theyreply, "There is hope for any of us ifold Arkwright has become a Christian!" In other words, we will admitthat it is more difficult for some mento accept the Gospel than for others.I may be preaching to some whohave cut loose from churches andBibles and Sundays, and who havecome in here with no intention of becoming Christians themselves, butjust to see what is going on; and yet:you may find yourself escaping, before you leave this house, as "with:the skin of your teeth. I do not expoet to waste this hour. I have seenboats go off from Cape May or LongBranch, and drop their nets, and afterawhile come ashore, pulling the nets.without having caught a single fish.It was not a good day, or they hadnot their ghtkind of a net. But weexpect no such excursion to-day. Thewater is full of fish, the wind is in the:right direction, the Gospel net isstrong. Oh thou who didst helpSimon and Andrew to fish, show usto-day how to cast the net on theright side of the ship!Some of you, in comning to God.,will have to run against sceptical notion. It is useless for people to saytsharp and cutting things to thosewho reject the Chrnstian religion. I scannot say such things. By what rprocess of temptation or trial or be- ztrayal you have come to your ']present state. I know not. There diare two gates to your nature. The digate of the head, and the gate of the t:heart. The gate of your head is t]locked with the bolts and bars that t:an archangel could not break, but the ngate ofyour heartis swinging easily bupon its hinges. If I assaulted your a~body with weapons, you would meet -bme with weapons, and it would be a hswerd-stroke for sword-stroke, and aiwound for wound and blood forblood; but iflIcome and knock at it. the door of your house, you open i+, tsand give me the best seat in your p]parlor. If I should come at you now n<with an argument, you would answer atme with an argument; if with sar- afcasin, y'ou answer me with sarcasm; ligblow for blow, stroke for stroke, but fowhen I come and knock at the door arof your heart, you open it say, "Come aiin, my brother, and tell me all you hiknow about Christ and heaven." diListen to two or three questions: n<Are you as happy as you used to be mnwhen you believed in the artruth of the Christian religion! mWolud you like to have your cili- cenow travelinlg? You had a rla- 1-e who pr1.fesed to be a Christiau,'1I was thoroahly consistent, living 1. dying in the faith of the Gospel. tould you not like to live the same (Liet life, and the same peaceful fath? I h ive a letter sent me by aLe who has rejected the Christian Iligion. It says: -I am old enough Iknow that the joys and pleasures Ilife are evanescent and to realize je fact that it must be camfortable 1old age to believe in somethinglative to the future. and to have aith in some system that proposes> save. I am free to confess that Iould be happ'er if I could exercisele simple and beautiful faith that isassessed by many whom I know. In not willingly out of the church orat of the faith. My state of uncertinty is one of unrest. Sometimesdoubt my immortality, and look upa the death-bed as the closing scene,fter wh.ch there is nothing. WhatbdlI do that I have not done?"11 scepticism is a dark.doleful land:jet me say that this Bible is e.therue or false. If it be false. we ares well off as you; if it be true, then-lich of us is safer?Let me also ask whether yourrouble has not beeD that you conjunded Christianity with the inconistent character of some who proess it? You are a lawyer. In yourrofession there are mean and dishonst men. Is that anything againsthe law? You are a doctor. Therexe unskilled and contemptible mena your profession. Is that anything.gainst medicine? You are a mer'hant. There are thieves and defraudrs in your business. Is that anyhing against merchandise? Behol,hen, the unfairnessof charging uponhristianity the wickedness of itslisciples. We admit that some of,he charges against those who pro!ess religion are true.Some of the mostigantic swindles of the present daylave been carried on by members ofhe church. There are men standingn the Lont rank in the churches whoivould not be trusted with $5 withut good collateral security. Theyeave their business dishonesties inhe vestibule of the church as theyoin and sis at the communion.Having concluded the sacrament.dey get up and wipe the wine fromtheir lips, go out, and take up theirins where they left off. To serve thedevil is their regular work; to serveGod. a sort of play spell. With aSunday sponge they expect to wipeff from their business slate all thepast week's inconsistencies. Youhave no more right to take such aman's life as a specimen of religionthan you have to take the twistedirons and split timbersthat lie on thebeach at Coney Island as a specimenof an American ship. It is time thatwe draw a line between religion andthe frailties of those who profess it.Do you not feel that the Bible,take it all in all, is about the bestbook that the world has over seen?Do you know any book that has asmuch in it! Do you not think, uponthe whole, that its influence has beenbeneficent? I come toyou with bothhands extended toward you. In onehand I have the Bible, and in theother I have nothing. This Bible inone hand I will surrender for everust as soon as in my other hand youan put a book that is better. TodayI invite you back into the good oldfashioned religion of your fathersto the God whom they worshiped, tothe Bible they read, to the promiseson wheathey-leaned, to the cross onpich they hung thereral expectations. You have not been happy aday since you swung off; you willnot be happy a minute until youswing backThere is a large class of persons inmid-life who have still in them appetites that were aroused in early manhood, at a time when they pridedthemselves on being a -little fast,""high livers," "free and eday," "hailfellows well met." They are now paying. in compound interest, for troubles they collected twenty years ago.Some of you are trying to escape, andyou will-yet very narrowly, "aswith the skin of your teeth." Godnd your own soul only know whatthe struggle is. Omnipotent gracehas pulled out many a soul. that wasdeeper in the mire than you are.They line the beach of heaven-themultitude whom God has rescued!rom the thrall of suicidal habits. If'ou this day turn your back onthe wrong and start anew God help!Ou. Oh the weakness of human'nelp! Men will sympathize for awhile and then turn you off. If youask for their pardon,they will give it,md say they will try you again; but,alling away again under the power,f temptation, they cast you eff for.iver. But God forgives seventyimes seven: yea seven hundred times;rea, though this be the ten-thoucndth time, He is more earnest,more ympathetic, more helpful thisast time than when you took yourirst misstep.If, with all the influences favorableor a right life, men make so manynistakes, how much harder it ishen, for instance, some appetitehrusts its iron grapple into theroota>f the tongue, and pulls a man downwrith hands of destruction! If,undermch circumstances, he breaks away,;here will be no sport in the underaking, no holiday enjoyment, but a,truggle in which the wrestlers move'rom side to side, and bend and twist,td watch for an opportunity to getn heavier strokes,until with one finalifort in which the muscles are disended and ths veins stand out, andhe blood starts, the swarthy habitals under the knee of the victrcaped at last as "with the skin ofjhe teeth."There are men who have been capized of evil passions, and capsized'aid-ocean, and they are a thousandiiles away from any shore of help.hey have for years been trying toig their way out. They have beenigging away, and digging away, butaey can never be delivered unlessiey wdll hoist some signal of dis-ess However weak and feeble ittay be, Christ will never see it, andear down upon the helpless craft,ad take them on board: and it wille known in earth and in heavenw narrowly they escaped-"escaped;wi~ the skin of their teeth."There are others who, in attemptg to come to God, must run ber'een a great many business perexities. If a man goes over to busimss at 10 o'clock in the morning,td comes away at 3 o'clock in theternoon he has some time for reaion: but how shall you find time;r religious contemplation when youe driven from sunrise to sunset,ed have been for five years going be-<ad in business, and are frequently tmned by creditors whom you canit pay, and when, from MondayCarning until Saturday night, youe dodging bills that you cannotset? You walk day by day in un- 2rtainties that have kept your brain fitl1 less business troubles than youave gone crazy. The clerk hasieard a noise inthe back countingoom, n:1d gone in and found thehivf man of the firm a raving mam-i,e: or the wife has heard the bang ef tpistol in the back parlor, and gone '#n, stumnbling over the dead body of Pier husband-a suicide. There are tk this house to-day 300 men pursued, Viarassed, trodden down and scalped 0>y business perplexities, and which 0xvay to turn next they do not know. 1Now God will not be hard on you. 1He knows what obstacles are in the Pway of your being a Christian, and tvour fir st effort in the right direc- ttion He will crown with success. Donot let Satan, with cotton bales andkegs and hogsheads and countersand stocks of unsalable goods, block 1up your way to heaven. Gather up Iall your energies. Tighten the girdle tabout your loins. Take an agomzing look into the face of God, andthen say, "here goes one grand effortfor life vternal!" and then boundaway for heaven; escaping "as withthe skin of your teeth."In the last day it will be found thatHugh Latimer and John Knox andHuss and Ridley were not the greatest martyrs, but Christian men whowent up incorrapt from the contaminations and perplexities of Wall Street,Water Street, Pear Street, BroadStreet, State Street and Third Street.On earth they were called brokers,or stock-jobbers, or retailers, or importers; but in heaven Christian heroes. No fagots were heaped abouttheir feet, no inquisition demandedfrom them recantation; no soldieraimed a spike at their heart; butthey had mental tortures, comparedwith which all physical consuming is as the breath of a spring mornmng.I find in the community a largeclass of men who have been so cheated, so lied about, so outrageouslywronged, that they have lost theirfaith n everything. In a world wthereeverything seems so topsy-turvy,they do not see how there can be anyGod. They are confounded andfrenzied and misanthropic. Elaborate argamenLs to prove to them thetruth of Christianity, or the truth ofanything else, touch them nowhere.Hear me, all such men. I preach toyou no rounded periods, no ornamental discourse; but put my hand onyour shoulder, and invite you intothe peace of the Gospel. Here is arock on which you may stand firm,though the waves dash against itharder than the Ltlantic, pitching itssurf clear above Eddystone lighthouse. Do not charge upon God allthese troubles of the world. As longas the world stuck to God. God stuckto the world; but the earth secededfrom His government, and hence allthese outrages, and all these woes.God is good. For many hundreds ofyvars He has been coaxing the worldto come back to Him; but the moreHe has coaxed, the more violenthave men been in theirresistance.andthey have stepped back and stepped back until they have dropped intoruin.Try this God, ye who have had thebloodhounds after you, and whohave thought tnat God had forgotten you. Try Him, and see if Hewill not help. Try Him, and see ifHe will not pardon. Try Him, andsee if He will not save. The flowersof spring have no bloom so sweet asthe flowering of Christ's affections.The sun hath no warmth comparedwith the glow of His heart. The waters have no refreshment lhke thefountain that will slake the thirst ofthy soul. At the moment the reindeer stands with his lip and nostrilthrust in the cool mountain torrentthe hunter may be coming throughthe thicket. Without~cracking astickunder his foot, he comes close by thestag, aims his gun, draws the trigger,and the poor thing rears in its deathagony and falls backward, its antlersciahig on the rocks; but the pantingheart that drinks from the waterbrook of God's promise shall neverbe fatally wounded, and shall neverdie.This world is a poor portion foryour soul; oh business man! An Eastern king had graven on his tomb twofigers, represented a. sounding uponeach other with a snap, and underthem the motto, "All is not worththat." Apicius Ccelius hanged himself because his steward informedhim that he had only eightythousandpounds sterling left. All the world'sriches make but a small inheritancefor a soul.; Robespierre attempted towin the applause of the world; butwhen he was dying a woman camerushing through the crowd, crying tohim, "Murderer of my kindred,descend to hell, covered with thecurses of every mother in France!"Many who have expected the plauditsof the world have died under its Anthema MaranathaOh, find your peace in God. Makeone strong pull for heaven. No halfway work will do it. There sometimes comes a time on shipboardwhen everything must be sacrificedto save the passengers. The cargo isnothing, the rigging is nothing. Thecaptain puts the trumpet to his lipsand shouts, "Cut away the mast!'Some of you have been tossed anddriven, and you have, in your effortto keep the word, well-nigh lost yoursoul. Until you have decided thismatter, let everything else go. Overboard with allthose other anxietiesand burdens! You will have to dropthe sails of your pride, and cut away:the mast. With one earnest cry for;help, put your cause into the hand ofHim who helped Paul out of thebreakers of Melita, and who, abovethe shrill blast of the wrathiest temp- Iet that ever blackened the sky orshook the ocean, can hear the faintestimploration for mercy.I shall go home to- day feeling thatsome of you, who have considered 2your case as hopeless, will take hea-t]again, and that, with blood-red ear-tnestness, such as you have never ex-(perienced before, you will start for tthe good land of the Gospel-at last cto look back saying: "What a great arisk I ran! Almost lost, but saved! ']Just got through, and no more! Es- l1aped by the skin of my teeth." C14-Herr Bethel, the German socialist, is a genuine workingman. He otarted as an ivory turner, and even g2w when something displeases himin the establishment of Freslich &iBebel at Leipzig, of whiehi he is a bartner, he tucks up his sleeves andhows the ignorant and obstinate y,rorkman "how it should be dune." a-Gary Pittman, the treasurer of "lbany, Ga., fleeced that city out ofLout $8,000. He was also cashier>f the bank of Nottingham. one or ehe new mushroom towns of North htlabamna. He got away with $1,800Jjf the bank's money in addition. HeLpeculated in Nottingham town lots bad got in on the ground floor. Both,Llbany and the bank are on the ground daloor at present, and Pittmnan has fcFIXINGTHF BT RDEN TIGHTER. i-narkoble Ui-wlti and Vrobal,y Dnvation o0 the ' ision Li-t.The increase of pension expendires in recent years is sonethUaig Ionderful. The proper maxiuni?nsion expenditure oi account ofie civil war-on the basis of rcalisability ineurred in military serce-wae reached in 1874. when theuitgo for pensions was :t:')53.749.b decreased froim that year until378, when it was $26.844.415. Theension agent, however, about that.me captured the demagogu, withLie result that new legi:da.uion wasevised to shower the pull- mioleypon persons not previousiy deemedrorthy of pensions. Their objectsave been greatly favored by the,rotectionists, whose interest it iso keep tariff taxes at the highestotch. The consequence is seen in aension expenditure in 1889 of $95,24,779. In the present fiscal yearlie expenditure is to be from *105.'00,000 to $125,000,000. Next yearf the service pension bill just passed>y the House become a law, thenual expenditure will be from150,000,000 to $160000. If the'prisoners' bill" also becomes a lawgoodly number of millions will beLdded to this figure. The amountlisbursed on accouant of pensionsiince 1861 has been $1,150,318.423,,xclusive of the $600,000,000 given in:ounties to volunteers. There is a:urious relation between the de:rease of the interest of the publielebt and the increase of pensions,,vhich indicates a tendency of the6var burden to become peipetual. OnAugust 31, 1865, when the debt wasLargest, the principal was 82.391,630,204 and the interest charge 6150.977,397. At present the inten. st bearingebt is about $750.000,000. and theinterest charge about $35.000,000.The saving in interest from debt paidgoes, it is evident, into pelnsions, sothat there is to be no relief from warburdens. If any one cherishes thebelief tbat the new pension laws areof triflin g importance for the reasonthat the large expenditure thr authorize is to last only a few years, hewill perhaps change his mind whenhe learns from the report of the commissioner of pensions that there arestill 37 persons drawing pensions onaccount of the Revolutionary war,which ended nearly 110 years agGand that there are 11,593 pensioner.of the war of 1812. If our past experience teaches anything, we shal]still be paying millions for pensionsin far off 1985. There is somethingvery magnificent, doubtless, in thEamount we are giving the survivors olthe 2,500,000 patriots who, after fouyears of desperate fighting, overcamtthe 600,000 Confederates. Thisbounteous stream of federal gratuitybrings cheer and ease to countleshappy homes. In 1888 the averagannual value of each pension wat$131.18-an amount of cash suffloienito relieve the average recipient fro=the need of working for a living. Al:through the North, West and Northwest this money comes in a bounteous and gladdening stream, winniugvotes and support for the party thaiorens the treasury gates for its outflow. But arc the other homes miadthappy by it? Are the taxpayers o0the country prospering in spite of th<tdrain upon their resources caused byour persion generosity? It is a mattV r worth considering. Ther e ar<signs that some of them' are beuingruined by it. Although the Wets1and Northwest receive the gr1eatelpart of the golden stream, itis amongthe farmers of those very sections o.the country that the cry of distress itloudest.Letter from MrM. .Jem-rsonx J~avi..The following letter has been received by the clerk of the city counciof Richmond, Va., which explainmitself:"Ba.uvout, Miss., April 23, 1890.To the Honorable City Council an(Board of Aldermen of RichmuondGentlemen-I have received yomresolutions, and thank you for thehandsome dress in which you haveembodied them, and most sincerel>for the noble tribute you have paid tcmy husband. These are the muor4gratifying because some of yomnmembers were our neighbors wherwe hoped everything and fearednothing, and the reverses and disappointments we sustained drew unloser together. Believe me the affection you express for him whicserved you gladly while he couldand loved your State and city sincerely while life lasted, brings such comfort as is now possible to me andmine. I note your resolutions as tcthe disposal of the revered rema~ins.My friends, do not press me for ananswer now. I cannot decide thequestion yet, but can only say I willdo what seems to our family andfriends best when we coe to determine the final place of iterment. Onef my dead rests with you. anid mosttenderly have yon cared fo andtended the little grave. and the grateful memory is ever presnnt with mue."Please aecept singly and colleeively for yourselves and the belovedeity you represent the best wishes'md sincere thanks of yours faithfully,"V. JEFrEP:SON D)Avs.A Gseoritia Rtomance.It is better to be burn plucky thauiueky. Four yearsi ago ai young&eorgian asked a charmig belle ofhe pretty town of Thonmsville to)narry him. 'I will,' she said. -whenro are an oflicerin the United Statesiy.' Too oldd to get an appoin~utnont to West Point, thus young Geor~ian enlisted as a private in ani artilery battery~his purpose beinig to riserom the ranks to a lieutenaney. Hecomplished his purp~ose in . ist twoears; for in IDecember last he passedisuccessful examination at Fortresstonroe and was assigned to duty atort Wingate, New Mexico. as lienenant of a coimanly of the SixthJavlry. He got a furlough and reurned to Georgia on a visit. Ofourse, the greater part of the timellotted to this visit was spent i~homasville. Tho result was as fol>ws: At 6:30 o'clock on the~ eveningf the 23d inst., Lieut. Lunsford Dan1 of the Sixth Cavalry, great-grandon of John C. Forsyth and grandsonf Alfred Iverson. both distinguished>r their services to Georgia anid theinited States, was united in narrige>Miss Bettie Bruce. one of the mosteauful and most highly accomished young ladies of the lovely andLinens town of Thomuasville. They:e now at Fort Wingate"-Brunsick Times.-The late Duke of Manchester'slebrated herd of -short-horns atioublehton is to be sold off'in July.;his large herd is one of the finest inngand, and was founded with the'st blood. ar.d has always been,ost carefully muaintained. The|ike gave 1,900 guineas for an Oxrd cow at the Dunmore sale inFIRE AT ITS WORST.FAm:.!i iv. rtt ion of a canadian Lunatic (A.-yluu->iore than a Hundred of the Inmates Kiled.The irisane asylum at Longue saPointe. nine miles from Montreal Socaurght fire at eleven o'clock on Tues- Cday moriig :and was soon a mass of m,11ales. wvith no hope of saving the tr<building from utter destruction. As R]inear as can be calculated from 100 to pl150 insane inmate's were caught in the sobuilding with no chanee of escape. stThe 'ire apparatus of the asylum was autterly inadequate to control the kiflilaes and several steamers were oiforwarded froim Montreal on a special Gtrain. The sights in the grounds yesurrounding the asylum were horri- 01ble beyond description. Hundreds arof lunatics, male and female, were oigroupedtogether in a frienzied condi- tition. The nurses made every effort Cto allay their fears and as rapidly as Mpossible th poor creatures were re- wimoved to places of shelter in the tcneighborhood. RAt a few minutes past two o'clock h,a detachnent of the Montreal fire lebrigade arrived on the scene. The ajexcitement among the lunatics in the Cgrounds finally became so great that ha detachment of the Montreal police 1force were hurried out to assist the aguards. There were 1,300 persons in hthe asylum when the fire broke out. sICowhided by a Woman.SAVANNAH, Ga., May .-This after- Anoon, between 4 and 5 o'clock, Mrs. 8John F. Cullum cowhided Alfred 0Fantel, a clerk in A. K. Altmayer & dCo.'s dry goods store.corner Bull and iBroughton streets.The cowhiding was very deliberate- ily planned. Mr. Cullum, the husband, 3purchased the weapon this morningand accompanied his wife to the cstore. Approaching Mr. Fantel, with cher husband at her side, Mrs. Cullum tbegan to use the cowhide vigorously. rGreat excitement and confusion pro- CI vailed. Mr. Altmayer rushed up toFantel's rescue and Cullum dealthimseveral blows, so Altmayer says. Cullum says he only observed: "Touch iI my wife and I will split you wide Copen." Cullum is suprintendent of Ethe fire alarm, and is a man of im- cmense strength. As far as can be tlearned, the trouble arose ox Mrs.Cullum returning a purchase, which IFantel said was not bought at Alt- Imayers., and he declined to receive Iit or exchange. Mrs. Cullum says hecalled her a liar. Fantel has borne agood reputation, and has been knownas a polite young gentleman. Mr. IAitmayer had Mr. Cullum arrested ifor assault and battery. He gavebond. 3frs. Cullum was not arrested Ithough her arrest was asked for.Mrs. Cullum struck Fantel about a Idozen blows.Has the Alliance Been Swindled?The Farmers' Alliance Exchange atDallas, Tex., has squandered nearly amillion and a nalf of doilars of thefarmers' money during the past threeweeks. There is widespread discontent in the subordinate Alliances. Itis alleged that an investigation hasbeen demanded and prominent Alliance men promise some sensationaldevelopments. They claim that acoterie of politicians at Dallas and:elsew~here are running the order forself-inteest.-New York Wold.Thme Attempt Abandoned.It doesn't take a great wvhie standing behind a pretty girl to get hercloak on-that is, not necessarily.But we have kno)wn of young men,stalwart, active young men, any oneof whom could occupy five minutesin extending this little necessarycourtesy- There are so many stylesIof occurrence in this world the secretof which lies concealed beneath aImountaia of analysis that itis uselessto pursue this subjiect further in asingle volume.-Merchant TJraveler.cehools int Texas.Texas is expending about $3,000,000 annually on her public schools,andl half a million more on the StateUniversity, Agricultnral College andschools for the deaf and dumb andblind. The school fund is growingfrom the sale of pulic lands andother sourci s at the rate of morethan $1,000,000 yearly. To the inIcome from the school fund is addedthe proceeds of local taxes levied forthis purpose. The State nas a schoolpopulation of some half a million,about one-fourthi colored. Normalschools for both white and colored1pupils are supported by the State,1and there are some 3000 colored teachers employed in the colored schools.Texas does much better so far aslength of term and salaries of teachers go than the other SouthernStates. Teachers there earn fortyfive dlollars per month on an average,which is above the average for theiwhole country-they teach about sixmonths in the year. The number ofteachters employed is annually in-icreasing, and the expenditures on ac-icount of schools will be $500,000iarger thi,; yeaLr than last.-Obstinate nose bleeding is freI uenftly one of the difficult things tocheek. Several aggt.ravated cases haveI tely ovcwmr.d at the hospital of ti~eUniversity of Pennsylvania. As ala.st resort Dr. D. Hayes Agnew triedhamu fat with greait rcsult.s Two largecylindei s of bacon were forced wellinto the nostrils and the hemorrhbageceased( at enee.--Mayor Grant. ofNewYork, is in anfaawkward position. having been comipelled to admit that he gave Flossi.the eight-year-old dug~ihter of Rich- vard Croker, ~ .000 in bills at a time aIwhen there was an acequoduct contraci on hand, in which Croker couldofficially help the Mayor.--In the State insane asylunm ofMassachiusetts four women and three vmen suffering from forms of dementia hnearly resembling each other tnd t]supposed to be hopeless c .ses suddenly and comipletely recovered after having had la grippe. The fact elis interesting and puzeling the doe I--The most feariul rumaor yet startednin reference to this pious administra' d<tion is that the private secretary of saPostmaster General Wanamaker fcplays poker on Sunday with the pri- avate secretary of BosM Quay. It issaid that they try to atone for theoriginal sin of the act by chipping out' Hfor the Republican campaign fund. orjfa:-Chaplain Milbrn's prayer that ' lolmlembilers of Congress might be cured -fr<of the~ habit of using profane lan,. Saguiage has called forth some angry i11protests from the statesmen in Wash- Iloiington. The chaplain in bis prayer 'bindicated the only particular in which tosome of these gentlemen resemble beOTTON STALK BAGGING 1qH!CMI PROMISES TO BECCME THESUCCESSFUL RIVAL OF JUTE.sir. W. E. Jackson solves theCo ton BagSiung ue-~in-A Maeline to Decorticatete Cutton Stalk-saniple of Baggingwuven From the Fiber.iuumv chiroicle. bCtotn bagging from the cotton elulks.It has been the dream of theorizig economists. tL:ke maIIV theories its waslistened u> U:mied at.UI tii .rd Atkinson, of Boston, theiocat American statistician, was rliou-git to be phrase-making when at atlauta he predicted that the prod- bets of the cotton plant wouldurove nre valuable than its fleecy eint. tWas he the mouthpiece of nature'slecree that the cotton stalk should (tseli cover, as it has fructified, thenowy burden?Let it suffice that the jute problemhat has stared every cotton planteru the face, is now at an end.THE MAN AT THE wHERL.Mr. Wm. E. Jackson, a young Aucasta lawyer, is the man who offerslie solution of the question to theSouth in his bagging manufacturedrom old field cotton stalks. It waso theory there on his office floorresterday. but a roll of bagging, andgray-headed cotton factors and merhants wanted to cheer as they fingered the new fiber in the yanks andwoven in warp and woof.Very few of Mr Jackson's friendshad any idea that matters other thanthose of a legal nature were occupyinghis tima: and this announcement mthe Chronicle of the success of his efforts will be the first intimation thathe has been busy in experimentalfields.A Chronicle reporter has Imowx ofhis labors and with their w> ncess theban of secrecy is removed.DEMONSTRATING ITS UTILITY.The Col. Sellers element was notdesirable. This theory must be demonstrated as practicable, and notonly this. but the sentiment againstthe jute bagging trust was not desired as capital. The new enterprisemust be demonstrated as fully capble of coping with as strong a rival as the jute bagging t':ust beforethe arena of competition was eatered.Besides the roll of bagging on thefloor there were bunches of the cottonstalk fiber in various stages of itspreparation: jute butts. bear grassand other fibers to make comparisons.Callers had already gotten windof thenew bagging and gathered in Mr.Jackson's law office. There weremany cotton men in the number andtheir questions elicited the information that every intclligentreader wouldask for.SOME FACTS ABOUT IT.Mr. Jackson had his thoughts turned totheutilization of some one of ourmany native fibrous plants as a c'ompetitor of the jute article. He riggedup crud~e machinery at his home inHarrisonville and for the past sixmonths has been experimenting. Thecolton stalk rewarded his efforts bybeing found susceptible of treatmentin his machine which separateda fine fiber, resembling jute in everyrespect, from the gum and skim ofthe stalk.He grew sanguine as this fiber wassubjected to iirst one and then another test and holding his counselwent diligently to work preparing aquantity of this. About two weeksago the Chronicle printed a personalmention of his departure for NewYork. With him he took his newfound fiber. At the jute baggingfactory of Mr. J. C. Todd at Patteroon, N. J., Mr. Jackson spent severaldays preparing forTHE FI NAL TEsT.He was kindly assisted by the proprietor, Mr. Todd, who turned overhis factory and help to him, and atthe end of three days the jute machinery turned out a roll of cottonstalk bagging that was pronouncedby Mr. Todd equal in every respectto the demands af the cottonplantersand the trade for cotton covering.It is some of this roll that is nowcreating such a profound sensationin cotton circles here.Mr. Jackson separates the fiber ona machine which was patented andperfected for South Amirica fiber experiments. He found it the samething as his experimental apparatusand secured it. He holds letterspatent on the apparatus, which icovered by letters patent inUnited States, Canada, Mexico,SotheAmerica, France, Germany, uthland, Spain and Belgium. Eng$35,0. It costHOW THE MACHINE woRKs.The principle consists in rnningthe stalks between a corrugated drumrevolved by an eccentric attachmenton a similar corrugated concave bed,and the charge between is wash-1ed by a flowing stream of water iowash away the residue of gum andbark.Mr. J. J. Doughty was among thosewho saw the new cotton stalk bagging and he says not one man in a1000 who handles cotton, unless head been advised previously, wouldknow the new candidate for favorrom jute bagging. It may be a~hade darker, but it takes markingeasily and is soft and pliable. Theample was made from stalks thatid been exposed for two months,avingbeen gathered only late inEebruary. When the stalk is harored, as it will be now that it hascommercial value, its elasticitya ndenacity will increase at least 25 perVLALUE 07 THE STALEs.Figures have been amassed andhese show that there need be noear of a lack of stalks to mnanufacure bagging to cover the entire cropach year, as an annual yield oftalks covers three yearly crops.hese stalks will now represent aomce of revenue to the planter, ayLhe Cotton Stalk Bagging Compan-ill pay about $'2 per tcn for theIt is estimated that the develop-1ient of this new industry will putsvo million of dollars in the farmers'ockets and represent a gross saving>this country of about three nilons.Invetwve genius seems to be1 smiling'agent that is to reward 1i planter and end the bitter fightainst jute bagging, which hasrompted him, whether an Alliancean or not, to send his cotton toA BLAS7 OF DEATH.tal and Destructive Work of a Southern;yclone...Many Iuildin, Destroyed andlerslna Kiled.A special from (ranburg. Texas,vs: "A destructive cyclone visitedIt Creek in the oa-tcrn portion of)ok County a 1er ui o'C0'ca:Sunday>rning. The beginnimg of serious3uble was at the residence of Leeaodes, twelve miles east of thatace. There were about twenty perns in ths house when the cycloneruck it. Miss Cella Carmichael,:ed seventeen years. was instantly hiIled, also Mwu y Carmichael, agedLe year, anl a little baby of Mrs.ibbs. Mrs. iaLjdi and her twelvelar old (laugter, Nora, were seriisly hurt and masy die. Mrs. Gibbesid her oldest daughter are al:;o seriisly injured. Other children inie house were bruised. At Fallreek, a little farther south, John.anley's house was wrecked and he Ias seriously injured. Charles Hous- 1in's house was demolished and Mrs.ushing was hurt. Mrs. Campbell's>use was blown away. Mrs. Zerky's house was demolished and her:m was broken in two places. Mr.lung's house was blown down andis wife and child were hurt. Mr.kobertson's house was demolishedad,Mrs Payne was hurt. Otherouses wrecked are those f Alf. Masay, L. McPeron, Woolcliffe and 31.orooks. The damage to outhouses,mces, crops and timber is very great.t the little town of Octon four perons were killed and a number senusly injured. Many houses wereemolished in that vicinity. Attobinseek, in Hood county, eightersons were killed, five of whom be)ng to the family of George Griffin.Lheavy hailstorm fell throughout thisection doing immense damage torops. News from Graham, in Youngounty, says a heavy hailstorm fellhere on Sunday. The hail comlpletelyuined crops and vegetation, wheat,orn and oats beiag ruined."The Approaching NuptialsMiss Winie Davis is really to beaarried to Mr. Alfred Wilkinson. ofyracuse. Mrs. Davis has so informd Colonel William H. Ross, of Maon, in a letter received by that genleman which reads as follows:Dear Colonel Ross: Not that youTave not probably heard it, but mydnd regard for you causes me to anlouice my daughter's engagement toffr. Alfred Wakinson, of Syracuse,i. Y. I think the young couple havevery chance of happ:ness together.ffy husband knew and liked him and6ppreciated that a regard which hadmisted nearly four years could not>e uprooted. Send your good wishesor her as she sails on her returnxome on the 10th of May. I hoped;o join her there, but find I cannot do;0.With kind regards to Mrs. Rosstnd a largo portion for yourself, Iun, faithfully yours,V. Jrwasox D.mis.Beauvoir House, May 1, 1890.Southerners to Honor Union GravesHon. Hugh N. Washington, aprominent Democratic lawyer of51acon, Ga., has accepted an invitaion from the Grand Army of theRepublic post of that city to makethe annual memorial address at thelecoration of the Union soldiers'graves at Hendersonvalle, this month.The post has also invited the Southern Cadets, a Democratic organization, to attend and fire a salute overthe graves of the men who wore theblue. The colored military companiesof Macon have usually performedthis service.Catarrh.Catarrh is a most disgusting ailment and yet many unnecessarilysuffer with the disease. They willtry local applications, which do nogood whatever, but fail to try suchconstitutonal treatment as is affordedby a use of B. B. B. (Botanic BloodBalm,) which removes the mucouspoison in the blood and thus eradieates the cause of the disease.N. C. Edwards, Tampassas Springs,Tex., writes: "I was greatly annoyedwith eatarrh which impaired mygeneral health. The discharge frommy nose was very offensive, and Iused various advertised remedieswithout benefit until finally the useof B. B. B. entirely cured me. I amproud to recommend a blood reme1y with such powerful curative virtues"B. C. Kinard & Son, Towaliga, Ga.,write: "We induced a neighbor totry B. B. B. for catarrh, which hethought incurable as it had resisted11l treatment. It delighted him and~ontinuingits use he was cured soundid well."The Singer Factory Burnt.ELuz.&rr', N. Y., May 8.-The enire western front of the Singer Sewng Machine factory, on First street,our stories high, was gutted by lastight's fire. The flames worked:heir way to the main building, exending along Trumbull street. eleanng out the stock, needle, finishing,djusting, and milling rooms. The>attern department was also destroyd, with the patterns therein. Fiftyhousand finished machines and 18,00,000 needles wore consumed. Theoss is estmnated at $2,000,000, fullynsure~d by the Singer Company. Allyork is suspended, and over 3,000>peratives are listlessly gazing uponhe burned building. Work cannot>e resumed under two months.-Mr. John C. Mims, a resident of)arlington county, S. C., committedicide on Tuesday by shooting himelf in the left side so that the ballierced his heart. A common revoler was the weapon used. Mr.MXimsras a married man, with severalIildren. No reason can be given foris deed.-GeorgeZimmer,a farmer ofMaysile, Ind., saturated the hides of his]vo cows with kerosene oil to kill 1rm, and afterwards took a red.at iron and started to b)rand one oftle cows, when in an instant the anialwas enveloped in flames. Aampede followed. The burningw mingled with the rest of the herditil all eight of them were a massflames. They rushed into a barntting fire to it. A hay stack was~xt ignited and consumed, and panmuonium reigned. The barn wasved. When all was over it wasund that the vermin were deadd so were the cows.-The grounds on which the White 8ouse now stanas were once thechard of David Burns. an old Scotch nrmer, whose cabin still stands in tLely obscurity a few squares back p~m the Executive Ma.nsion. It is i'id that Washington, when engaged llay' ing out, the city. had many a t]ig and bitter quarrel with Burns t]foro he could pecrsua~de the old man a,sell his land, even though it would Pused in future for the home of the mpine straw covering at an actualaSs of something like a dollar and aarter a bale.soME OF tTS BEAUTIEs.It will not stain cotton as the pine;raw did, and from tests has been)und les3 inflammable than the jute.One of the spectators put in when;s various favorable features wereeing commented on that the greatit had not been mentioned-it isiade at home of home products.It does sound too good to be truehat the cotton stalk which has had:be removed either by burning, pulig up or beating down and ploughig wider is to be a source of incomei the planter. He will harvest histalks and cart them to the railroad,eceiving in return funds or bagging,nd at a time when his teams andands are idle."I would rather have perfected that>rocess than be President," was thenthusiastie remark of another specator.Mr. Jackson was sought by ahronicle reporter for some insidelata, but found. that, beyond theact of feeling assured of the suc,ess of his work, he had no schedule>f procedure mapped out.AUGUSTA WILL BEAP BENEFIT.Augusta would be the headquar;ers of the new company, and theffices and main fastory would beere. The decorticating machineswill be placed in sections of the:ountry convenient to the mill, andthe Aber will be there prepared,baled and shipped to the looms forweaving. The ordinary water orsteam power used to our gins willoperate the fibermachine. The rootsof the plant are used along with thestalk. When the fiber comes outit is a bright russit color. The jutepeople he saw in the North saidnothing to him further than one party asking him to bring his samplearound and exhibit it to some of theofficers. He will, in his plans, lool:to keeping it a free Southern industry, untrammeled by pools, and letthe farmers look on it as it really is,the one thing desired to make themindependent. He trusts to havingeach section interested in the nearest mill and the fiber preparing stations.AUGUSTA THE FAMMn R RIEND.Augusta is getting to be the Meccaof the farmer. It was Augusta thatfirst took a decisive stand in regardto the bagging qestion, and Augusta mill men and cotton men placedthemselves on record as friends of thecotton planter by agreeing to the 10cents reduction when the cotto?eloth bagging was decided on to meetthe autocratic position of the jutotrust. Now somes Augusta with tbecotton stalk bagging.Through the industry and persEverance of Mr. Jackson, Augusta hascertainly been placed in a favorablelight as a. claimant for the cottonplanters'favor, and when she pushesto the front still further-probablyas the frst inland cotton market Jthe United States-to Mr. Jackson ina large measure the advancement ofher cotton interest will be due.He is being congratulated on allsides.The Author of M'Ginty.The man who envolved from histeeming brain the ballad which narrates the tumbles taken by Dan MoGinty is probably at the present mement the most talked about of theminor poets of America, says the Rochester Democrat end Chronicle. "DownWent McGinty" has arrived at the du' -nity of being "the" gag of the day. Swhon the reporter was informed th.b'Joe Flynn, the undoubted autho. othe miost popular song of the se.asonwas singing it daily and nightJy at alocal theater, down went the: wniter tothe bottom of the hall that i connectsthe upper tier of dressing-ropmis at theoperi-house and found himself in theawful presence of the origina; McGinty,who was engaged in extri bting himaself from~ his .grease .pa'~t preparatory to donning "his ~et suit ofclothes."Mr. Flynn a a good-loking, clackhaired anid b.ack-eyed young fellow.who tiAes the success of7 his muse inthe most philosophic and. modest mansner. Of the origin of the famous son:ghe said: "If you ever lyeard the storyof the Irishman who was successfidycarried in ahod to the' to p of a seveuistory building' by afriend, as the result of a bet that the feat could not beasuccessfully accomplished, and who remarked on paying over the money.'Well, Pat, ye won faii-ly, but whenyrfoot slip at the sixth fioar, bejabers, I hope!' yous know whatsuggested the first verse of the song. Ifyou ever heard the air of, the old songabout the old man who had a woodenleg, and who 'had no to~bacey in his oldtobaccy box,' you can 'guess where thesuggestion for the tune came from. Iwrote the song some tune last Apr0Jand did not think very much of it.while my partner, Mr. Sheridan here,thought nothing of it at all, We triedit on for the first time at .the Providence opera-house. That importantevent took place on the evening of May* last. The song caught on at once.and we, and, as far as I can see, everysong-and-dance man, have been singIng it ever since. I suppose it took meabout half an hour to write the songafter I had got the chorus in my headCopper Brads in Shoes.'Do you see these large copper bradiin the sole of my shoe?" aske a g'entleman of the St. Louis Republic's Man~About Town. as he held up to view t:hesole of one of his shoes. On beinganswered in the affirmative he said:"To these simple brads alone I attribute my present good health. Foryears I was an invalhd, subject to dyspopsia, neuralgia, headache, and othezinnumerable pains, and traveled thecountry over in search of health. Intraveling out west among the Indiantribes I was struck with their remark-.able health, and expecially their exemption from the maladies that afflictd me and also with the fact that thestrongest and healthiest went barefooted altogether. I soughbt an explanation of the matter and by coatinuedabservation and study was~ finally ledto the eonclusion that the achos andpains to which civilized nian is heir areawing to the manner in which we inulato our bodies from Mother Earth.Sience is every day more clearly demonstrating that electricity is thevitaizing constituent of our* bodies andthat this globe of ours is a mig~hty battery, continually generating' and dissharging electricity. Now, 'i reasoned,i this was corrs.-t the secret of the Inian's health was in his Lbar,. feet,whichIxposed his whole body to the vitaliaig ininenoc of the electrical earth currnts; while my ill health was attribut,ible to my feet being insulated fLe:n;hese currents. Acting on this hypothed I sought to restore the broken coa.section by inserting these hra~ds in theoles of my shoes.and the result.I mumiay, was astonishing. My feet, wvhietormerly were neaTy, always cold. sontecame warm and moist; my heal tsommenced shortly to imiprove, and inSfew months I was entireiy relieved ushll my pains, and hiate ever since enSed good health. It is a very simpleand easily tested, and I feel surev benefit any one afilicted as.